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Word: train (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...people, a tenth of the population of Los Angeles at the time, buggied out to dedicate the "university"-a small frame building in a wild mustard field. But the promise was elusive; even in 1927, U.S.C.'s endowment income was only $21,000. Still, U.S.C. managed to train most of its area's doctors, lawyers and teachers until the late 1940s, when mushrooming U.C.L.A. overtook...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Second Chance for U.S.C. | 5/26/1961 | See Source »

Beneath the platform would be service areas, shops, a concourse, schools. There would be a road on the island, but all motor vehicles, except for fire and police use, would be banned; residents would either walk or take a "Carveyer"-a below-level train. A subway station, bridge and ferry service would provide access to the island. Estimated cost of turning city-owned Welfare Island into "East Island": $450 million, including an undetermined amount for leasing the island...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The City: Flesh v. Machine | 5/26/1961 | See Source »

...military advisory groups to help train the self-defense corps, the local village militias...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: C'est Magnifique | 5/19/1961 | See Source »

...crowd of Democratic Party followers was ordered by Menderes to demonstrate against Inonu in May 1959, overzealously pelted Inonu's car with stones and beat on it with sticks. Item: on Menderes' order, the army harassed Inonu on a political stumping tour in Anatolia, held up his train for three hours, turned him away from a village he was attempting to visit. Item: Democratic Party goons in the Anatolian towns of Canakkale and Geyikli bullied, attacked and injured Republican politicians, though not provably at Menderes' orders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Turkey: After Seven Months | 5/19/1961 | See Source »

...British manager of a Siamese lumber camp imagines that he has leprosy and goes jungle-crazy; in "Tahiti Waits," a young man avoids marrying the girl he loves by plunging into a passionate affair with a vahine; in The Wicked Baronet, a mystery that began on a slow train through Wessex is resolved on a sun-dappled veranda in the Virgin Islands. The sea change caused by these junketings around the globe is generally favorable to Waugh's writing. In his 1926 The Making of a Matron, he needed 17 pages to dissect the not-too-complex character...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Writer's Luck | 5/12/1961 | See Source »

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